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See more books from this AuthorAlas, Helton’s tone is as affectless as the Texas plains...Find something interesting to do—and something interesting to read.
Read Full Review of Drugs: A Novel | See more reviews from KirkusIn an entire book dedicated to drug use, one would hope for some urgency, surreal tenderness, compelling danger or—at the very least—the cheap thrill of superficial glamour. Unfortunately, readers won't find any of that here...
Read Full Review of Drugs: A Novel | See more reviews from Publishers WeeklyHelton's dryly humorous and unsentimental descriptions of the effects of marijuana, cocaine, MDMA, alcohol, nicotine, hydrocodone (and many other illicit and legal substances) are full of the self-honesty praised by recovery groups.
Read Full Review of Drugs: A NovelHelton makes the mistake of believing that drug using—the action all by itself—is interesting and builds the entire book around it... He makes a big show out of an extreme stereotype and worst of all it’s not even funny.
Read Full Review of Drugs: A Novel...enumerating a compendium of every substance the character has ever taken is at crosspurposes with effective narrative drive...The book might have benefited from a less fractured and more orthodox structure, especially given Helton’s fairly conventional approach to prose.
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